NTFS Write support not working in Laptops

[SlackingDevel]

hi there,

I am using a slackware 10.2 in my IBM Thinkpad A31. I recompiled the kernel from source using 2.6.16.5. Everything went fine except the NTFS write support. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[TrashOverride]

r u sure that u've loaded the NTFS support in the kernel? What errors/if any/ does it show?

[bigtomrodney]

You generally won't have write support in linux. Unless you are using fuse or captiventfs modules running. Normally you will just have read access.

[scientica]

on top of that, the current NTFS write support (in the kernel) is virtually limited to nothing (iirc something like "writes that doesn't change the file size" and "must not be more than(?) 32 kb (or so)").

[MMYoung]

NTFS write support for Linux, barring the external projects named in this thread, is usless at best and destructive at its worse.

From the 2.6.16.5 kernel NTFS write support help file:

The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot
be written to.

I NEVER enable NTFS write support and rarely (if ever) need read access to my one NTFS partition. Instead I have a "shared data" partition that is FAT32 formatted so that both Windows and Linux can use any data (music/files) I have stored there.

HTH,
MMYoung

[maheshyogi]

I am new to linux. I loaded suse linux 10.2 on my acer laptop. I got the wireless network on pretty easily.

I then installed fuse-2.6.0 and ntfs-3g. When I execute command 'mount-a' in the terminal, this is the message I get.

(none):~ # mount -a
Volume is scheduled for check.
Please boot into Windows TWICE, or use the 'force' mount option.
fusermount: mount failed: No such device
Failed to create FUSE mount point: No such file or directory
Retry to create FUSE mount point ...
fusermount: mount failed: No such device
Failed to create FUSE mount point: No such file or directory
ERROR: The FUSE kernel module 2.6.x is not available. Either remove the old
FUSE kernel module (use the command 'rmmod fuse') if you have the new
one, or compile the new module from the FUSE-2.6.x source package.
Please see the FUSE README file and the below web page for more help:

http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#fuse26

How do I proceed?

[scientica]

Are you sure the kernel module fuse is loaded? The error looks like it's not finding any fuse support in the kernel, or it finds some old one (the error messge is a little hard to figure out I must admit, first it whines about not finding the moudle the suggests removing it... )
Try lsmod, if it's not in the list, as root "modprobe fuse" (verify that it loaded with lsmod). Once loaded try mounting again (if that did the trick, you'll either have to load the module manually every time you reboot, or put it in the autoload list (usually /etc/modules.autoload/kernel-2.6)).

[maheshyogi]

I did a rmmod fuse and installed fuse again. Then removed entries from /etc/fstab. Third, reinstalled ntfs-3g. Fourth, fixed entries in /etc/fstab.

It is working fine. Thanks for the suggestions.